GSDI Regional Newsletter for May 2013

GSDI-logoThe SDI Regional Newsletters for May 2013 are now posted on the GSDI home page at http://www.gsdi.org.

You may also download them directly as follows:

Chinese translations of the newsletter are posted as they arrive and may be downloaded at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters

Past and current SDI Regional newsletters are also accessible in the archives at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters

Also posted here are the the Newsletters from related associations:

  • FGDC (USA Federal Geographic Data Committee)
  • EuroGeographics (European association representing mapping, land registry, cadastral agencies)
  • EUROGI (European association representing broad geospatial community)
  • GSDI Newsletter, offering news on the GSDI Association activities, occasional publication
  • EIS Africa, Environmental Information Systems in Africa
  • SALB, Second Administrative Level Boundaries
  • UN SPIDER, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DURING THE MONTH

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GSDI Regional Newsletter for April 2013

GSDI-logoThe SDI Regional Newsletters for April 2013 are now posted on the GSDI home page at http://www.gsdi.org.

You may also download them directly as follows:

Chinese translations of the newsletter are posted as they arrive and may be downloaded at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters

Past and current SDI Regional newsletters are also accessible in the archives at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters

Also posted here are the the Newsletters from related associations:

  • FGDC (USA Federal Geographic Data Committee)
  • EuroGeographics (European association representing mapping, land registry, cadastral agencies)
  • EUROGI (European association representing broad geospatial community)
  • GSDI Newsletter, offering news on the GSDI Association activities, occasional publication
  • EIS Africa, Environmental Information Systems in Africa
  • SALB, Second Administrative Level Boundaries
  • UN SPIDER, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Please forward the newsletters to others that may be interested.

ANNOUNCEMENTS DURING THE MONTH

If you want to be kept up to date on announcements in your region of the world throughout the month or want to contribute announcements to others in your region, subscribe to the appropriate SDI discussion lists at http://www.gsdi.org/discussionlists

Among the several discussion list offerings include:

The value of geo-information: Participate in UN-SPIDER online survey

UN-SPIDERHow beneficial are geo-information products for disaster and risk management? Assessing the operational as well as strategic impact of geoinformation (e.g. risk maps, early warning, damage maps) is a central question in this context. It can only be solved by integrating the knowledge and experience of end-users involved in emergency response, disaster preparedness or  risk reduction activities, on an operational or strategic level.

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In the context of the VALID project, the project team has issued a survey which is online on  http://www.un-spider.org/validsurvey. We invite you to share with us your opinion on up to ten geo-information products that have been shortlisted in a previous user survey. If you wish to give your opinion in this user appraisal, kindly do so until 11 April 2013.

VALID is an ongoing project jointly carried out by UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER and the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS). The objective of VALID is to produce a publication to give evidence of the benefits which can be realized by applying geoinformation to disaster and risk management.

If you have any questions about the VALID project and the user appraisal, feel free to get in touch with Dr. Robert Backhaus (robert.backhaus@unoosa.org).

[source: UN-SPIDER]

GSDI Regional Newsletter for March 2013

GSDI-logoThe SDI Regional Newsletters for March 2013 are now posted on the GSDI home page at http://www.gsdi.org.

You may also download them directly as follows:

Continue reading

Chinese translations of the newsletter are posted as they arrive and may be downloaded at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters

Past and current SDI Regional newsletters are also accessible in the archives at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters

Also posted here are the the Newsletters from related associations:

  • FGDC (USA Federal Geographic Data Committee)
  • EuroGeographics (European association representing mapping, land registry, cadastral agencies)
  • EUROGI (European association representing broad geospatial community)
  • GSDI Newsletter, offering news on the GSDI Association activities, occasional publication
  • EIS Africa, Environmental Information Systems in Africa
  • SALB, Second Administrative Level Boundaries
  • UN SPIDER, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Please forward the newsletters to others that may be interested.

ANNOUNCEMENTS DURING THE MONTH

If you want to be kept up to date on announcements in your region of the world throughout the month or want to contribute announcements to others in your region, subscribe to the appropriate SDI discussion lists at http://www.gsdi.org/discussionlists

Among the several discussion list offerings include: